HPC Amber on GPUs

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Running Amber on GPUs

The Amber PMEMD module can be run on the GPU Nodes, and in many cases it will run much faster than on the Basic Nodes. (Only the PMEMD module is GPU enabled with Amber 11). Make a script to run your job on the GPU nodes, using these two samples:

Submitting a job

Make sure the Amber module is loaded before submitting a job. This only needs to be done once per login.

module load amber/openmpi/11p20

Submit the script to the batch scheduler as usual.

sbatch –b scriptname

Experiment with your code to find the most efficient number GPUs and nodes to use. Start with one GPU on one node, then see if you get a significant speedup using more more GPUs per node or more nodes.